Postby Mangafanatic » Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:40 pm
Yumie wrote: But it all worked out because the sales lady agreed to just order it for us and pretend we rang up with it today, marking it as prepaid on the computer. So we'll pick it up next Thursday.
The funny thing about that was that I said "I didn't know you were allowed to do that!"
Then she said "Well, technically we aren't, but I'll do it anyways." I guess knowing the employees well has many advantages.
Every year in Uganda, innumerable children simply. . . disappear. These children all stolen under the cover of darkness from their homes and impressed into the guerilla armies of the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army]. In the deserts of Uganda, they are forced to witness the mindless slaughter of other children until they themselves can do nothing but kill.
Kill. These children, generally ranging from ages 5-12, are brainwashed into murdering in the name of the resistance and into stealing other children from their beds to suffer the same fate.
Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.
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visit the Invisible Children home page.